The Lacemaker [VHS]

The Lacemaker [VHS]
by Claude Goretta

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Actor: Annemarie D?ringer, Florence Giorgetti, Isabelle Huppert, Renate Schroeter, Yves Beneyton
Director: Claude Goretta
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, Letterboxed, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Homevision
Studio: Homevision

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Movie Review: unforgettable
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm giving a 5-star rating for this reason: I saw this film one time close to 30 years ago and I have never forgotten it. I've forgotten details, of course, but the beauty and the emotional intensity have stayed with me. I'm so happy to find that it's available on video. Now I'll not only see it again but own it. In my memory, the boyfriend and his college friends loved to sit around smoking and talking in abstract terms about truth and beauty. The boyfriend hoped to bring this naive, ignorant girl along to some greater intellectual understanding of such high-flown concepts so that she would fit into his circle and not embarrass him with her intellectual weakness. The irony was that the girl was herself the personification of truth and beauty, serving him and his friends food and drink with Zen-like care, making love to him, listening to him, creating simple, aesthetic pleasures. The intellectually arrogant and condescending college student was so blinded by his own ego that he failed to see her for what she was and cast her aside. This is how I remember the story, anyway, from so many years ago.

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Isabelle Huppert catapulted from minor actress to international star with her mesmerizing performance in The Lacemaker, Claude Goretta's bittersweet twist on the Cinderella story. Huppert plays a shy beautician who falls rapturously in love with a handsome student (Yves Beneyton). He is captivated by her gracefulness and attracted by her virginity. But his inability to appreciate her inner beauty leads to heartbreaking tragedy for the fragile young woman.

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